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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fire, Smoke and Desperation After a Strike in the Heart of Kyiv www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Europe and Canada are each strong. Europe and Canada are even stronger together.
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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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Column | The shame in a photo of an asylum seeker before his death belongs to us all
Pierre Damas Bel stepped into highway traffic after losing his immigration status. Before that, he posed for a picture of his ankle bracelet.
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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Inside the Battle to Save One Pioneering General From Hegseth’s Purge www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...
nytimes.com
The Battle to Save General Donahue From Hegseth’s Army Purge
Gen. Christopher T. Donahue’s vision for fighting future wars won him powerful supporters around the world. Could they save his career?
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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
nytimes.com
Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In Small Iranian Town, a U.S. Attack Turns a Wedding Into a Tragedy www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/v...
nytimes.com
In Small Iranian Town, a U.S. Attack Turns a Wedding Into a Tragedy
The bomb that hit the residential area was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said.
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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Warning Lights Are Blinking Again www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/o...
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Opinion | We Know the Risks of A.I. We Need to Act.
A.I. could turn one of our country’s worst habits into a national security crisis.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026
This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.
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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump Is Trying to Force Americans to Unlearn What We Know www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Is Trying to Force Americans to Unlearn What We Know
This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.
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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
What a photo of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo reveals about his humanity, and our own
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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
-Notice News 1/ "YES: Mamdani's administration just funded New York City's first-ever pet food pantry program.
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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
2/ "$750,000 in the FY2027 budget, specifically to help pet owners who can't afford food for their animals. Another $750,000 goes toward affordable spay/neuter services. $1.5 million total, aimed at keeping people and their pets together."
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Glad to see a reference to Ben Valentino’s important work in this fine reporting by M Gessen www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/o...
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Opinion | The White House’s Latest Provocation Is ‘Grotesque and Terrifying and Juvenile’
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If Big Brother doesn’t like your science topic you won’t be funded and if Big Brother doesn’t like your results you will be defunded. A recipe for backwardness that seems to be designed by people who want America to humiliate itself and collapse. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science
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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Trump Has Failed as Commander in Chief www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Has Failed as Commander in Chief
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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Where Was Nurul Amin Shah Alam? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Where Was Nurul Amin Shah Alam?
A refugee with little sight and no English, he had been jailed for a year, intercepted by federal agents and delivered to a merciless Buffalo winter.
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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Meet the New Leader of the Free World www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...
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Opinion | Meet the New Leader of the Free World
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bobruth12.bsky.social @bobruth12.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A lot of us feel exactly the same way
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Springsteen: Well, this past winter federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis. They picked the wrong city. Your strength and your commitment told us that this is still America. And this reactionary nightmare and these invasions of American cities will not stand.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Today's the day. America has no king. Come out and stand together in solidarity for freedom. #NoKings Find your event: www.nokings.org
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Where will you be tomorrow? #NoKings Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I wrote a lot about Bob Mueller across a lot of chapters of his career. I wanted to share two @wired.com pieces that I wrote about his defining life experiences—both a picture of an era of public service all but lost today: 1) His brave *voluntary* service in Vietnam: www.wired.com/story/robert...
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The Untold Story of Robert Mueller's Time in Combat
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's job is to make sense of how Russia hacked the 2016 election. But to make sense of Mueller, you have to revisit Vietnam's bloodiest battles.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Obama will always be the better man.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Rituals of humiliation are a central tool of fascist regimes, particularly in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, designed to destroy the identity of targeted individuals, cement group solidarity among perpetrators, and assert total domination in public and private spaces.
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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Trump’s Fantasy Is Crashing Down www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Fantasy Is Crashing Down
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Chris Murphy: “This is the most incompetent, incoherent war America has fought in the last 100 years — this administration has no idea what they are doing I have great sympathy for our soldiers & our military leaders — they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) speaks to the media after attending Congressional briefings on Iran at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 14/03/2026
The Trump administration approved BP Plc’s plan to pump billions of dollars worth of crude from what will be the company’s first virgin field development in the Gulf of Mexico since the deadly 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that triggered the worst oil spill in US history.
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BP Wins OK for First New Gulf Project Since Deepwater Horizon Tragedy, Worst Oil Spill in US History
The Trump administration approved BP Plc’s plan to pump billions of dollars worth of crude from what will be the company’s first virgin field development in the Gulf of Mexico since the deadly 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that triggered the worst oil spill in US history.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/03/2026
"It's pretty clear that this team didn't think through, never mind the second- and third-order effects; they didn't think through the first-order effects... this will be a case study at war colleges forever, because they...were constantly caught by surprise." Tom Nichols on Trump's war.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/03/2026
BREAKING: Pete Kegstand IGNORED the CENTCOM chief and the Chair and Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs opposition to GUTTING offices that limit civilian casualties, calling them "stupid." He fired and replaces all opposed. Politico with the exclusive: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
politico.com
Hegseth ignored military officials when he slashed offices that limit risk to civilians
The Defense secretary’s decision to cut offices that mitigate civilian harm faces renewed attention as the Pentagon investigates a strike that killed hundreds of Iranian children.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week. Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool. But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/03/2026
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account 

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar  at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2026
Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 02/03/2026
Over a month has passed since we demanded information about the Minnesota children held in federal detention facilities. We have not received a response. We will not stay silent while Donald Trump and Kristi Noem imprison children. www.fox9.com/news/gov-wal...
fox9.com
Gov. Walz challenges DHS Secretary Noem on federal agents detaining children
Gov. Tim Walz is pressing for answers from federal authorities regarding the detention of children in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge. Walz demanded information more a month ago, and has not go...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.
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Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
A picture of bad bunny with the word love
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
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dmitchell121.bsky.social @dmitchell121.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Thank you, dad.❤️
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
To all those who bravely served our country, thank you to you and your family for your extraordinary service. The sacrifices that all of you have made to protect our country will be honored, today and every day.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/11/2025
"I want to offer a different kind of reflection from an old veteran, one that doesn’t reduce service to a slogan but helps show its lived reality." This morning @markhertling.bsky.social passes on the cliches and writes on the culture and character of veterans: www.thebulwark.com/p/who-we-cho...
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Who We Choose to Be: A Reflection on the Character of Veterans
A shared culture of service.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New Jersey, it is the honor of my life to earn your trust to become this great state’s 57th Governor. I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.
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